CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS: Artist Scientist DIALOGUE With Helena Nikonole and Alvaro Rodriguez Thu, July 2, 2026

CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS
Artist Scientist DIALOGUE With Helena Nikonole and Alvaro Rodriguez

Venue: Art Laboratory Berlin, Prinzenallee + online (Zoom)

Thu, 2 July 2026, 7:30 pm CET
Hybrid: on-site (limited places) and online (Zoom)
Registration is required for both formats.

Welcome to our next ARTIST SCIENTIST DIALOGUE with artist and researcher Helena Nikonole and soil ecologist Dr Alvaro Rodriguez in the context of Art Laboratory Berlin’s current research project CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS. The event will take place hybrid, feel free to join on-site or online (please register).

In her talk, Helena Nikonole will introduce aspects of her artistic practice, including her projects Acoustic Agriculture and Speculative Species Evolution, and share some ideas behind her collaboration with Alvaro Rodriguez on microbial communities and sound. In his presentation, Dr Alvaro Rodriguez will introduce metagenomics, the technique he has been applying for studying microbial communities, and discuss its possible applications to understand the behaviour of the microbial communities exposed to sound stimuli.

About CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS

During 2025 and 2026, Art Laboratory Berlin is unfolding the new innovative project CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS with an interdisciplinary exchange between art and science in Berlin science laboratories, kindly supported by Lottostiftung Berlin. Building on Berlin’s unique status as a global centre for arts and sciences, we aim to create new synergies based on topics of current research. In collaboration with a consortium of scientists from the Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, and other instutions, Art Laboratory Berlin is initiating artist-in-lab residencies for several internationally recognized, Berlin-based artists – including Margherita Pevere. We expect strong outcomes in transdisciplinary knowledge transfer, artistic research, art science communication, and some new artworks critically highlighting 21st-century innovations.